We have a beautiful Autumn morning here, cold, sunny, damp and misty. Magical. I was off out of the door with DS at 7.35am and headed up th...

To keep the tidying up energy flowing I put peppermint oil in the diffuser and started on the sketchbook / notebook pile.   Or rather, pi...

The "Great Tidy Up before Repainting" is still underway.  Yesterday was the book department. It all descended into chaos at one p...

A report for my friends Dorothy and Sue :) To prove that I DID make my way across the garden to the blue shed for the start of a new work...

 Poppies have long been a favourite flower of mine. I think its the floozie red colours, delicate nature of the petals, their movement in t...

Today marks the 500th Anniversary of the Battle of Flodden, around 14,000 men died in these fields 500yrs ago today.   It was the last great...

  Naturally dyed fabrics and silk thread with Shisha mirrors     Using some tissuetex (thanks Caroline!) and brusho inks to form the b...

Well school started back again today and DS is now at High School. I've spent the day being a stressed out mother not because of the sch...

We are enjoying the height of summer with gardening, birthdays, lazy mornings, trips out and drinking coffee sitting on the squashy cushions...

Maybe you've been wondering what I've been doing recently? Getting to grips with the third computer in six months….coping with a 12...